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King sentenced for intent to lure 14YO
Asks fictional girl for pictures, sex
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Travis L. King entered a guilty plea before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to the charge of solicitation of a minor.
A local man who thought he was luring a 14-year-old girl to his home for sex will serving 120 days in jail after the teen ended up being an undercover TBI agent.The man, Travis L. King, 37, of McMinnville entered a guilty plea before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to the charge of solicitation of a minor to engage in aggravated statutory rape. He was directed to serve 120 days of a three-year sentence and will be required to list himself with the state sexual offender registry for at least 10 years. Exploitation charges were dropped, according to Assistant District Attorney General Tom Miner given the lack of solid evidence to support the charge and given the fact he had no major prior convictions.According to Miner, the TBI was tipped by a group out of New York called I-Predator that had set up a fake Facebook account in order to catch online predators.